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EU Commissioner visits LSE
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European Commissioner Christos Stylianides met with faculty from a range of LSE departments on March 15 at an informal discussion event hosted by LSE Health. Commissioner Stylianides, who is the EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management as well as the EU's Ebola Coordinator, kicked off discussions with an overview of the EU response to the refugee crisis. He later described the event on twitter as an opportunity to share "valuable info and views on research priorities". ▶▶
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Brexit 'critical threat' to NHS
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A new brief by LSE and Imperial academics warns that Britain's withdrawal from the EU would negatively impact the NHS in a number of ways. In Will the NHS be affected by leaving or remaining in the EU?, Elias Mossialos, Ara Darzi and colleagues find that withdrawal from the EU is likely to reduce NHS funding, lead to staffing shortages, and hamper Britain’s world-leading health research sector. Their thoughts are also set out in a comment piece in the HSJ: Five evidence-based reasons why the NHS is better within Europe. Read more ▶▶
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Chinese collaboration
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LSE Council has approved the establishment of an institutional partnership with Fudan University, making it the School’s 7th such partner. Fudan is highly rated – both within China and internationally - and is part of the elite C9 group of top research institutions. Following the signing of an MOU in November 2015, leading academics from Fudan visited LSE in March to agree areas of collaboration and a research agenda to take forward. Focus areas will include out of pocket expenditure in China, health insurance financing and anti-microbial resistance. Fudan academics presented their research at a public seminar on Chinese Health Policy at the LSE. Their presentations, which are available to download, explored reforms in Chinese health policy to date, insurance provision and progress with hospital reforms. ▶▶
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The Good Pharma Model
Medical and economic sociologist Professor Donald Light visited the LSE in May to talk about the crisis of unaffordably high prices for cancer and other specialty medicines and to describe a potential alternative for lower cost drug development. Light set out the public health model for drug development used by the Mario Negri Institute and described in Light's new book Good Pharma. Listen to the podcast and download presentations from the event via our website. ▶▶ |
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Antibiotic innovation
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Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the world’s greatest public health threats, with drug resistance levels reaching unprecedented levels. A new LSE Health study - Targeting Innovation in Antibiotic Drug Discovery: The Need for a One Health – One Europe – One World Framework - published by the WHO's European Observatory, offers an in-depth review and critical analysis of the existing European and international initiatives that support innovation of novel antibiotic drugs. The study includes a set of policy recommendations for improving the global research and development agendas for antibiotics. ▶▶
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Innovative teaching
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LSE Health's Irene Papanicolas has been singled out for her innovative use of new technologies in her role as Programme Director for the Executive MSc Health Economics, Policy and Management. Irene looked to technology to bridge some of the learning gaps that can emerge in the long periods that executive students are away from the LSE. She struck on using online peer evaluation tools to foster group belonging and to change the pressure of exam only final assessment. Watch Irene talk about her teaching and read the LSE blog post. Irene is currently completing a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. ▶▶
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Justin Parkhurst
Associate Professor in Global Health Policy
Justin's research includes HIV/AIDS prevention policy, maternal health, health systems development in low-income settings, and more recently the political and institutional factors shaping evidence utilisation.
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Noam Schimmel
Research Officer
Noam's research focuses on the politics, ethics, and practice of human rights. He has a particular interest in American healthcare reform policy and politics, and the human right to healthcare.
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Mylene Lagarde
Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy
Mylene is a health economist who has undertaken applied economic work in many low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on financial and non-financial incentives.
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Cancer Drugs Provide Positive Value In Nine Countries, But The United States Lags In Health Gains Per Dollar Spent Sebastian Salas-Vega and Elias Mossialos compare the value in lives saved for cancer drug spending across nine countries, identifying a £15 billion net benefit for UK patients. ▶▶
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Availability of medicines in Estonia: an analysis of existing barriers and options to address them LSE Health's Alessandra Ferrario, Panos Kanavos and colleagues set out a common vision and road map for increasing access to medicines in Estonia. ▶▶
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Social/economic costs and health-related quality of life in patients with epidermolysis bullosa in Europe Aris Angelis, Panos Kanavos and colleagues highlight the substantial social/economic burden of EB in Europe, attributable mostly to high direct non-healthcare costs. ▶▶
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Pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement in China: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts Jia Hu and Elias Mossialos call for a coordinated rationalization of pharmaceutical policy in China. ▶▶
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Ebola respons-ibility: moving from shared to multiple responsibilities Clare Wenham argues that a move towards multiple responsibilities may prove a more effective mechanism for ensuring global health security. ▶▶
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Progress in increasing affordability of medicines for non-communicable diseases since the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the Republic of Moldova
Alessandra Ferrario and colleaues assess mandatory health insurance in Moldova. ▶▶
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In sickness but not in wealth: field evidence on patients’ risk preferences in the financial and health domain
LSE's Matteo Galizzi and colleagues find a greater appetite for risk in finance than in health. ▶▶
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A critical analysis of the review on antimicrobial resistance report and the infectious disease financing facility Elias Mossialos and David M. Brogan call for action at the forthcoming G20 summit. ▶▶
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The Social Value Of Vaccination Programs: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness LSE Health's Jeroen Lutyen and Philippe Beutels argue that the application of cost-effectiveness analysis to vaccination programs fails to capture the full contribution such a program offers to the community. ▶▶
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Eliciting health care priorities in developing countries: experimental evidence from Guatemala Joan Costa-Font and colleagues propose an alternative methodology for eliciting preferences for health care programs in developing country settings. ▶▶
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Balloon Dilatation and Stenting for Aortic Coarctation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis LSE Health's Maximilian Salcher and Huseyin Naci pooled results of studies of interventions for one of the most common congenital heart diseases and found better outcomes after stenting compared with balloon dilatation.. ▶▶
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Critique of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Value Assessment Framework for Cancer Treatments: Putting Methodologic Robustness First LSE's Aris Angelis and Panos Kanavos argue that treatment preferences should be elicited by considering value (ie, NHB) and costs separately. ▶▶
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#1 most tweeted research
An article by LSE Health's Huseyin Naci on exercise versus drug intervention has been rated the number one most tweeted LSE research article by Altmetric. The article, published in the BMJ in 2013, found that exercise and many drug interventions are often similar in terms of their mortality benefits in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, rehabilitation after stroke, treatment of heart failure, and prevention of diabetes. See Altmetric's statistics on the article ▶▶
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Jeroen Lutyen (together with Martin Knapp and Martin Rossor of UCL) has received a Seed Award grant from the Wellcome Trust for a project entitled: 'The capabilities approach as ethical foundation for a cognition policy based on a metric of cognitive footprint'.
Ernestina Coast and colleagues from the Methodology Institute (Ben Wilson) and Middle East Centre (Valeria Cetorelli) have received funding from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) to undertake a research study entitled: "Female genital mutilation in Africa: understanding trends and evaluating policies". Given the scale of FGM in Africa, there is a limited body of research. Studies have investigated the prevalence and determinants of FGM using single country analysis or comparing countries at specific points in time. There is, however, no research examining long-run trends in FGM practices, both within and between countries. Reconstructing these trends is essential if changes in FGM behaviours are to be understood, and if the effectiveness of national and subnational FGM policies is to be evaluated. This proposal makes use of under-exploited secondary survey data on FGM (Demographic and Health Surveys – DHS; and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys – MICS), and will answer 4 research questions: What are the long-run trends in FGM practices within African countries? How do the long-run trends in FGM practices vary between African countries? To what extent have specific subnational policies been effective at reducing FGM? To what extent have specific national policies been effective at reducing FGM?
Zlatko Nikoloski has been awarded a research consultancy by UNICEF Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa for a project titled “Multi-Country under-five Mortality Determinant Analysis (Health Section)”. The overall main objective of the project is to assess the relative importance of major improvements in levels of health interventions, social and environmental determinants of population health, measured as under-five mortality rate (U5MR), at country level. The study will also aim to project lives saved in the next 5 years by scaling up effective maternal, new born and child health (MNCH) interventions.
Elias Mossialos has received a repeat grant from The Commonwealth Fund to continue to support the production of the Commonwealth Fund International Profiles of Health Care Systems across fifteen countries. The 2015 profiles are accessible online via an interactive website.
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LSE Health Public Event: In conversation with... Dr Rrahmani, Minister of Health, Republic of Kosovo
22 June 2016
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European Observatory Venice Summer School
24 – 30 July 2016
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International Health Policy Conference 2017
16-19 February 2017
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BLOG POST
Greater public investment is needed to fund the NHS at a level considered normal in other high income countries ▶▶
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The latest two editions of Health Economics, Policy and Law are now available online. Volume 11 - Issue 02 features analysis on why healthcare providers merge, market oriented reform in the Netherlands, primary care services in the US, and black market medicine and privatisation in Israel. Volume 11 - Issue 03 features original research articles on equity in health care financing in Portugal, the diffusion of HTA agencies in Europe, flu vaccine subsidies in Japan, health care reform in Finland and a perspective article on health savings accounts. ▶▶
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Eurohealth (Vol 21 No 4):the changing role of nursing Edited by Sherry Merkur, Anna Maresso and David McDaid, this latest issue includes articles on the state of nursing in the European Union, nurse migration, EU accession and nursing, and whether there an EU framework for nurse education. ▶▶
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UNITED KINGDOM: NEW HiT REPORT
The European Observatory have released a new Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report for the UK ▶▶
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BLOG POST
Emily Grundy and Sanna Read ask: Is parenthood beneficial for later life cognition? ▶▶
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LSE Health is delighted to confirm a number of new appointments:
Justin Parkhurst - Associate Professor in Global Health Policy.
Mylene Lagarde - Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy.
Clare Wenham - Assistant Professor in Global Health Policy.
Noam Schimmel - Research Officer
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICY CONFERENCE 2017
LSE Health will host the inaugural International Health Policy Conference at the LSE from 16–19 February 2017. This unique, multi-disciplinary event will bring together health scholars and policy makers from a range of disciplines to debate current international health issues. A call for papers and details of how to register are now online.
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Two new reports from the European Observatory analyse voluntary health insurance in Europe, focussing on role and regulation and individual country experience.
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HEALTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE
New book produced by the European Observatory offers a robust framework for strengthening health system governance ▶▶
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IMPROVING ANTIBIOTIC USE
A new publication in the Observatory Study Series delineates priorities for developing diagnostics to to manage and curb the expansion of bacterial drug resistance ▶▶
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Our cancer care is not giving us value for money Lord Darzi cites research by Elias Mossialos and Sebastian Salas-Vega in an article in The Telegraph.
When cancer treatments fail, Italy wants money back LSE Health's Olivier Wouters spoke to Bloomberg about the Italian Medicines Agency, which tracks patients' treatments and their outcomes.
Exercise prescriptions important for Type 2 Diabetes A range of international media outlets have picked up on comments by LSE Health's Dr Huseyin Naci on research led by Dr Romeu Mendes, which shows that exercise and physical activity can help to control type 2 diabetes. Coverage included The Daily Mail, Japan Today, Egypt Independent, and Yahoo! News.
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ISRAEL: NEW HiT REPORT
The European Observatory have released a new Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report for Israel ▶▶
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NEW ALPHA NEWSLETTER
Take a look at the ALPHA research unit's latest update on research, news and events ▶▶
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TAJIKISTAN: NEW HiT REPORT
The European Observatory have released a new Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report for Tajikistan ▶▶
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VENICE SUMMER SCHOOL 2017
The European Observatory's week long Venice Summer school focuses this year on "Primary care: innovating for integrated, more effective care". It takes place from the 24 – 30 July 2016.
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SLOVENIA: NEW HiT REPORT
A new European Observatory Health Systems in Transition (HiT) report for Slovenia finds reform challenges ahead ▶▶
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